Re: How do you flatten a Mac file?

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From: Paul Kerin
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 00:00

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In article <6m7cna$eg0$1@maxwell.emf.net>, Marty Kent
<mkent@emf.emf.net> writes
>
>I've noticed that in PhotoShop (Mac), when you Export as GIF89, the
>file is created with no resource fork, but if you Save and set File
>Format to GIF, you get a resource fork. (I'm using PhotoShop 4; don't
>know how things look in other versions.)
>
>As far as amputating resource forks from JPEGs, I haven't figured
>out how to do it right from PhotoShop; have been using the demo 
>version of ImageReady (available from Adobe's web site for free)
>which handles it nicely. I'd sure like to know how to save 
>resource-fork-less JPEGs straight from PhotoShop too...

Thanks to everyone for their advice on this. Credit to David Prince who
e-mailed me and said, go to http://www.download.com and download "GIF
Prep 1.0.1" - a freeware drag-n-drop utility from Boxtop Software that
strips out the resource fork from GIF *AND* JPEG files.

So I did. And it works a treat.
-- 
Paul Kerin

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